geog 347: geographies of gender ii

GEOG 347: Geographies of Gender II

"Attacking the conventional division between public and private space should [be

a] priority...Women must transform the sexual division of domestic labor, the

privatized economic basis of domestic work, and the spatial separation of homes and

workplaces if they are to be equal members of society"

Dolores Hayden: Non Sexist City

• Critique of architecture and planning rooted in "A woman's place is in the home"

• Suburbanization as historic reponse to urban class struggle

• Man as "family wage" earner; woman as responsible for "carework"-- physical and emotional maintenance of family

• Suburbia as isolating, wasteful• Government aid assuming built environment

as given

Dolores Hayden: Non Sexist City

Alternatives• Cuban Family Code 1974• Service Houses/Collective Houses, Sweden

1903-1944• Steilshoop Project, Germany 1970--

supportive housing• Nina West Homes, London 1972• Utopian Socialist Communities, USA 1800s• proposed HOMES collectives-- new

cosntruction or retrofitting existing housing

Sunnyside Gardens- NYC, 1920s

Sunnyside Gardens- NYC, 1920s

Sunnyside Gardens- NYC, 1920s

Ganas, Staten Island 1970s

Denmark 1970s

Christiania, Denmark 1970s

Portland, Oregon, 2000s